some dude (or dudette) is living rent free in this guy’s mind

That’s true, even my friends I would consider doing well aren’t spending multiple thousands of dollars on a phone right now. Economy isn’t in a state where sane people feel like giving away that much

People love giving away their hard earned money

Too many colors on a map looks busy, as long as none are touching with the same color then it’s good. In fact, the fewest number of colors you can use without any touching is usually the best

Recognize that anywhere. From Pink Floyd’s P.U.L.S.E. live show.

We really need a hard fork, or an alternative. Android doesn’t have the same feeling it did 15 years ago, even 10. It was the open alternative, the anti-apple. Now they just want to be apple.

Yeah that’s where it turned from story to joke for me

Damn this is insane. Using claude/cursor for work is near, but they have a mode literally called “yolo mode” which is this. Agents allowed to run whatever code they like, which is insane. I allow it to do basic things, you can search the repo and read code files, but goddamn allowing it to do whatever it wants? Hard no

The amount of people who treat work devices like their own is insane. When work is over my laptop is shutdown and closed. There’s no need for it to be on at all until I start working again. In a way I kind of get the corpo ITs reasoning why they’d want this, people messaging their friends and families from the same devices that have company secrets on them

I’ll send it back to you then, do you have any non-LTT sources that show that it was fake allegations?

Gamers Nexus did a full hour long deep dive into him, very illuminating

He’s been accused of, admitted to, and proven that he is paid off and goes more for entertainment/engagement than actual reviews of products. There are thousands of tech reviewers on YouTube doing honest work, I’ll always downvote the openly dishonest ones

So they killed ChromeOS to… Do this?

Oh, oh no no no it wasn’t

The reason he wants it is he doesn’t want secrets to setup auth

Yes I’d like auth without the auth please

above my paygrade that last question. As for the first, we did automatically pull it out of the email, but it was sent to us manually

Rules I’ve learned from software engineering for almost 2 decades.

• Never roll your own ORM
• Never roll your own Auth

No matter what you think, someone else did it better. Trying to do either of those outside of a hobby environment is pure hubris. “But I can do it better” - no you fucking can’t. I have wasted much much more time debugging shitty “home grown” ORM solutions that clearly some dev just was bored and did than I have spent figuring out the quirks of whatever one I’m using. Same goes for auth. Just learn it.

I worked for a mid-sized government entity where we handled PII data. Underneath us were local municipalities who were in charge of sending us that PII so that it could be registered at our level. For PII think licenses, IDs, sensitive stuff for sure.

Most of the municipalities were easy to work with, they did an SFTP drop or used a VPN or something.

A couple though were rural. Very rural, and didn’t have IT departments. They had Martha who works the counter from 1-4pm. Those places were… horrid. We had a special email where they would email us whatever formats they had. Unencrypted, completely open, we couldn’t do anything about it because it was their data and their rules, it was our job to simply accept what they had. We could of course make serious suggestions, point out how horrid this was, but at the end of the day it was their decision. So we had a job to log into an email account every day, check for an email from Martha’s hotmail account, and parse the excel file she used to read out private IDs and license numbers which she manually typed into it.

This was 20 years ago now so dear god I hope their laws improved.

It’s a good idea. I have family who insist on calling without messaging first and I feel like this helps bridge that gap a bit. This can tell me “walk out of your meeting a family member is dying” when I get a random call. A text could do the same thing but some people are just incapable of grasping that the person in the other end of the phone also has a completely separate life from theirs and may be busy.

If it gets abused then that also will be an ignored call.

Best we continue to change nothing because what’s the point! Here’s my credit card fill 'er up please and thanks!